Public service by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. And now the Senate Foreign Relations Committee assessing u. S. Strategy in afghanistan among the witnesses deputy secretary of state John Sullivan discussing the role of neighboring pakistan and randall slieber outlining the military role in training. This is about two hours. Well come to order and we thank those in attendance rolling out the new strategy. Reiterated our commitment to helping establish a foundation for political resolution. With a recent report of shrinking government control of territory continued of Afghan Forces and deadly attacks in kabul about and isis and it is clear that foundation is a long way off. We are encouraged by the troops strength authorized in the new strategy at 12,300 military personnel with an additional 1,000 on request in 2014. Our nato and nonnato allies reinforced their troop commitments and support to Afghan Forces through 2020.
Uniform to the Veterans Administration is as seamless as possible and i think we owe them that. One last question general. Your predecessor, general dempsey, stated repeatedly, and i am quoting we have the capability to use a military option if the iranians choose to stray off the diplomatic path end quote. My question to you is are you satisfied our nation has done enough to prepare militarily for the option and the president has said all options should be on the table if necessary to use a military option there as much as we all may wish that the negotiations should succeed. Senator, my understanding today is that we have both the plans in place and the capability in place to deal with a wide range of things in iran. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman and general. Congratulations on your nomination and thank you for your 38 years of distinguished service and your leadership. Our nation is fortunate to have a military leader such as you serving at a time in great peril. I wa
Coordinator and making sure that people are aware and have the resources. Thats certainly not the time to be coming into the Government Office and working with us to make sure we have appropriate remedies. Another topic i raised seeing trade secrets as a form of intellectual property like copyright and trademark. We are beginning to get it. They have been actively advocating and working with european nations and they are very interested in whats happening here in the United States. You mentioned moving from first inventor to file with the systems we have now. Theres a number of changes i pr was created out of that whole process. We just need to see the implications. Just now, three or four years later, what it means. Later, what it means. Will it have positive implications or something that we may see there are issues with that. That is why, if we are going to legislate again in this area we need to be very careful about how we go about it because we are just now seeing the output of w
America. Everybody. But today i want to focus on one aspect of American Life that remains particularly skewed by race and by health, a source of in equity that has ripple effects on families and communities and ultimately on our nation and that is our criminal Justice System. Now, this is not this is not a new topic. I know sometimes folks discover these things like they just happen. There is a long history of in equity in the criminal Justice System in america. When i was in the state legislature in illinois, we worked to make sure that we had video taping the interrogations because there were some problems there. We set up racial profiling laws to prevent the kind of bias in traffic stops that too many people experience. Since my First Campaign ive talked about how in too many cases our criminal Justice System ends up being a pipeline from underfunded inadequate schools to overcrowded jails. What has changed though is that in recent years, the eyes of more americans have been opened
That is Something Congress is trying to work on once more. Well come back to that a little later in the discussion. Same question, dave over to you. I think there is a real opportunity for us to be able to accelerate. The challenges we need to be more deliberate around the way that we are experimenting with this technology. The dialogues ive been having with some leadership is a renewed enthusiasm around taking emerging technology and the war fighters getting together we were trying to figure out what is the potential of the technology but in many ways, like my house, i cant anticipate how they are going to use it. They have far better ways to see it then we do. Its the sitter of brain storming process that allow you to adapt the procedures that you are going to use to employ the capability and feed that back into the acquisition process. Then you can tighten up the cycle time. Its its a co evolution of the solution. To have an example of the kind of things youre talking about . At lea